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Home Front: Politix

Los Angeles Times editorial boss resigns after billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong scraps Harris endorsement

2024-10-24

[NY Post] The editorials editor for the Los Angeles Times stepped down Wednesday after the newspaper’s billionaire owner stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mariel Garza is leaving her post at the Times because she wants “to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent” after biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong scrapped the paper’s endorsement for president.

“In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review she said.

“This is how I’m standing up.”

And so she should. This will also make her more employable to the remaining Progressive news media companies, should any be hiring instead of downsizing.

Last week, Soon-Shiong told the newspaper’s editorial board through the outlet’s editor that the LA Times would not endorse Harris or former President Donald Trump, which was first reported by Semafor.

A draft of a proposed editorial giving Harris the nod was even written by Garza before it was called off, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.

She told the journalistic-centric outlet she didn’t think the endorsement would change voters’ minds because the LA Times is a “very liberal paper” and most of its readers are Harris supporters.

While the paper has chosen a Democrat for president since 2008, it didn’t endorse Harris for California attorney general in 2010, instead opting for Republican Steve Cooley, CJR reported.

The LA Times union said in an email to union members on Wednesday it sent a letter to Soon-Shiong, who has owned the paper since 2018, and editor Terry Tang asking for a reason why the endorsement was called off, but hadn’t received a reply, Semafor reported.

“We believe the company owes the staff an explanation about why this decision was made after years of endorsements in general elections,” the union reportedly wrote.

“Because the boss said so,” is not good enough for them? Perhaps they should step down, too.

Posted by:Frank G

#9 Oh, he a Diddycrat.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-10-24 21:13

#8 Pete Buttgag disputes

Posted by: Frank G 2024-10-24 20:59

#7 If Harris can't handle Anderson Cooper's "Male Privilege", well I got news for you, pal...

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-10-24 20:48

#6 Via AOSHQ: WaPo is not going to endorse Kamala, either

Posted by: Frank G 2024-10-24 13:41

#5 Mariel can burn her own reputation. Soon-Shiong doesn't her to burn his property's rep

Posted by: Frank G 2024-10-24 12:54

#4 She demands the right to endorse a terrible candidate whose campaign is a dumpster fire. She is not OK with being silenced to protect her laughable reputation.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-10-24 12:31

#3 Nothing stops the 'workers' from pooling resources and buying the rag to print exactly what they want. Somehow that concept seems to elude them.

Communism does, when it allows unworthy people to claim other peoples' property as theirs, such as Mariel here who is acting like someone who didn't earn it.

And how awful is Harris when in 2010 the LA Times, then owned by a different person, was also like, "Nah rather have a Republican". Publicly. In California.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-10-24 12:07

#2 LA Times boss says editors were asked to come up with 'fair' analysis of Trump AND Kamala

Dr Pat Soon-Shiong
"a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, and transplant surgeon. He was born on July 29, 1952, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Soon-Shiong is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer treatment. He is also the founder of NantWorks, a conglomerate of healthcare and technology companies."

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-10-24 11:22

#1 Nothing stops the 'workers' from pooling resources and buying the rag to print exactly what they want. Somehow that concept seems to elude them.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-10-24 08:18

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